2:32 PM,
Oct. 7, 2013

Tevin Geike, 20, a soldier from Joint Base Lewis McChord, died from his injuries on Oct. 5 after he was stabbed.

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Doug Stanglin
USA Today

Police in a Tacoma suburb are investigating the stabbing death of a white soldier by one of five black males in a passing car as a potential hate crime.

Tevin A. Geike, 20, from nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord, was killed early Saturday after an altercation that began with a racial insult shouted at the white soldiers by one of five black men in a passing car, Lakewood Police spokesman Chris Lawler said, according to The (Tacoma) News Tribune.

"At this point, it appears that it could have been a hate crime," Lawler said. "We're certainly looking at it now as a potential hate crime. We're not going to ...